How you bonded with your parent or carer when you were a baby provides a template for how you bond with those close to you in later life. This concept is known in psychology as “attachment theory”. Knowing what your attachment style is (secure, avoidant, anxious or disorganised) can help you navigate life’s ups and downs, says Helen Dent. And you can discover your attachment style here too.

There’s already a so-called health tax for sugar, tobacco, and alcohol, so why not sausages? That’s what Marco Springmann suggests. His research shows a “meat tax” could prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths and save billions of dollars in healthcare costs around the world every year.

The Shetlands are roughly as far away from Edinburgh as Edinburgh is from London, but you wouldn’t know it from most UK maps, which place the islands in an “inset” box just off the Scottish coast. This has long annoyed local residents. In light of a new law which means Scotland’s public bodies must now place the Shetlands in their true location, mapping expert Nick Bearman looks at the controversy.

Dubbed a “flesh-eating zombie drug”, Krokodil has already destroyed thousands of lives in Russia. Now, it has reached the US and Europe. Chemist Simon Cotton explains a drug being cooked up using household ingredients. Meanwhile, Anna Sergi looks at organised crime – and why the focus on it shouldn’t be as a national security threat, whatever the UK Home Office says.

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